The weatherinEngland has been weird. I got a little burnt sunbathing in February. The snowman in the garden had recently melted ... But when I sit down in the evening and flick on the telly, browse the cinema listings, or put on some music, I don’t find the biggest story on earth ... It’s refreshingly thoughtful, but a one-off in mainstream culture....

"We need to see Pakistan taking concrete and sustained action to reign in the terrorist groups, mainly the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba in order to ensure that we don't have re-escalation (of tension) in the region," a senior administration official told reporters at the White House....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan security forces detained a key aide to opposition leader Juan Guaido in a raid on his home early Thursday, an opposition lawmaker said. Lawyer RobertoMarrero was taken by intelligence agents in the overnight operation inCaracas, said lawmaker Sergio Vergara, whose nearby residence was also searched....

A new report published on Thursday in the New York Times said the doomed Boeing jets which crashed inIndonesia and Ethiopia both lacked two safety features in the cockpits because the company charged extra to install them ...It's still unknown what happened to cause the crashes in ......

By the time the president began his anti-McCain tirade inOhio on Wednesday, several leading Republicans had signaled a new willingness to defy Trump by defending the Vietnam War veteran as a hero seven months after he died of brain cancer ... One McCain Senate vote in particular is the thumbs-down Trump can’t seem to forget....

But if you chat to people in their twenties and beyond you’re likely to find that many don’t feel like actual grown-ups. Scientists suggest that this is because in your twenties, you’re not a full-on adult ... ‘I think the system is adapting to what’s hiding in plain sight, that people don’t like (the idea of) a caterpillar turning into a butterfly....

Hamas appears to have forcibly suppressed a rare uptick of public dissent inGaza, beating and arresting scores of people over the past week who were demonstrating against price rises and dire living conditions across the strip ... But following riot police attacks since last week, it was not clear if the strike would go ahead .......

... past anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders — and all other politicians — in important local elections ... "Today, we won the first major battle," Baudet told his party faithful in a jubilant victory speech after Wednesday's vote....

In a blog post late Wednesday evening the social media company's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, wrote that the shooter's video did not trigger Facebook's automatic detection systems because its artificial intelligence did not have enough training to recognize that type of video....

Secretary of StateMike Pompeo avoided the issue of sovereignty over the Golan during his meeting with Netanyahu Wednesday, he touted last month’s Mideast conference inPoland, where he said dozens of countries discussed ways “to stop Iran’s regional rampage.”....

The Switzerland-based firm’s chairman and former Saxo BankCEO, Lars Seier Christensen, said Rasmussen will play a “pivotal” role in the firm’s global expansion plans.Facebook’s blockchain recruitment drive continues, as they look to hire a lead commercial counsel to develop further partnerships to expand their product development in the industry....